St Andrew

South doorway set in flushwork: C13 with engaged shafts and pointed arch with keeled roll-moulding.

Plain north doorway with hoodmould on headstops, early C14

Interior: C15 nave roof, much repaired and renewed: arch-braced rafters, alternate bays on wallposts and head corbels.

C15 north and south arcades, four bays, piers with four shafts and continuous wave and hollow-chamfer mouldings.

Aisle roofs C15 with roll-moulded and arch-braced principals with traceried spandrels

Angle-piscina in south- east corner of chancel with traceried and crocketted ogee heads on carved headstops.

In the north-east corner an elaborate C19 memorial niche to the 7th Marquis of Lothian : ogee arched recess, crocketted, cusped and subcusped

TG1728 : Blickling, St. Andrew's Church: The 8th Marquis of Lothian memorial (detail)

© Michael Garlick

Chancel contains good wall monuments, notably to Elizabeth Gurdon a semicircular niche with leaf spandrels and modillion cornice on Ionic colonnettes containing a kneeling figure

C17 and C18 slabs in chancel floor.

In the south aisle a C16 tomb chest to Sir Edward Clere with sixteen shields in arched recesses.

Wall monument to Margaret Graile Many good C14

C15 brasses including a large figure of Sir Nicholas Dagworth , bust of James de Holveston and Roger and Cecily Felthorp 1454 (portrayed with their 16 children).

In the nave, a large chest tomb with recumbent figure and attendant angels at head and foot to William Schomberg Robert, 8th Earl of Lothian , by G.F. Watts 1878.

Adjacent to south door a white marble relief by A.G. Walker to Constance, widow of 8th Marquess C17 pulpit on coved pedestal, hexagonal.

Octagonal C15 font with lions in panels around bowl, angel-corbels below bowl and four lions around stem.

TG1728 : Blickling, St. Andrew's Church: The font

© Michael Garlick